COLORADO RIVER: HERE WE COME!

A short drive from Horsehoe Bend to Page, Az., a quick bite of lunch, and we were off to our Colorado River smooth water float trip.
This15-mile float trip began with a motor coach ride down the two-mile long Glen Canyon Dam access tunnel.
where our
motorized
pontoon raft
awaited at
at the foot
of the Glen
Canyon dam
which towers
583 feet above..






With the
dam in the
background









and our
self-described
"river-rat"
guide, Ricco,
at the controls,









we began our dowstream journey and what some have referred to as "one of the most dramatic stretches of river found in the western United States".

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